Charles C. Tew

Charles Courtenay Tew (17 October 1827-17 September 1862) was a Colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

Biography
Charles Courtenay Tew was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1827, and he graduated first in his class from The Citadel in 1846. He served as a professor there until 1852 and founded the Hillsborough Military Academy in North Carolina in 1859, and he was one of North Carolina's first two colonels appointed upon secession in 1861, the other being D.H. Hill. He commanded the 2nd North Carolina as a part of George B. Anderson's brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia, and he was shot through both temples while speaking with Colonel John B. Gordon at the Sunken Road during the Battle of Antietam on 17 September 1862. His body was pulled down into the Sunken Road after he was struck, and it was never recovered.